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562 results in British history: general interest

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The New Cambridge History of the English Language
  • Britain, Ireland and Europe
  • Volume 4
  • Edited by Raymond Hickey
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    February 2026
    Print publication:
    28 February 2026

The New Cambridge History of the English Language
  • Transmission, Change and Ideology
  • Volume 3
  • Edited by Joan Beal
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2026
    Print publication:
    31 October 2025

The New Cambridge History of the English Language
  • Context, Contact and Development
  • Volume 1
  • Edited by Laura Wright, Raymond Hickey
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025

The New Cambridge History of the English Language
  • Documentation, Sources of Data and Modelling
  • Volume 2
  • Edited by Merja Kytö, Erik Smitterberg
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    January 2026
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel
  • From Platform to Plot via the Railroad
  • Nicola Kirkby
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    01 August 2026
  • From 1830 onwards, railway infrastructure and novel infrastructure worked together to set nineteenth-century British society moving in new directions. At the same time, they introduced new periods of relative stasis into everyday life – whether waiting for a train or for the next instalment of a serial – that were keenly felt. Here, Nicola Kirkby maps out the plot mechanisms that drive canonical nineteenth-century fiction by authors including Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and E. M. Forster. Her cross-disciplinary approach, as enjoyable to follow as it is thorough, draws logistical challenges of multiplot, serial, and collaborative fiction into dialogue with large-scale public infrastructure. If stations, termini, tracks and tunnels reshaped the way that people moved and met both on and off the rails in the nineteenth century, Kirkby asks, then what new mechanisms did these spaces of encounter, entanglement, and disconnection offer the novel?

The Cambridge History of War
  • Volume 3, War and the Early Modern World
  • Edited by David Parrott, Gábor Ágoston
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • Volume III of The Cambridge History of War covers the early modern world, offering a four-hundred-year perspective from the last Eurasian nomadic empires to the advent of ironclad, steam-driven warships in the mid-nineteenth century. Together, the chapters cover the rise of professional armies and purpose-built warships in Europe; the evolution of military societies in the great Islamic empires; the vicissitudes of Ming and Qing military organization and that of their Asian neighbours; and the raising and maintaining of armies in Africa and the Americas. Numerous processes of imperial expansion, both on land of sea, are examined, as are the processes of global confrontation and interchange across different military systems. Technology, organization, finance, and military cultures are each explored from a broad perspective. Bringing together an impressive team of experts in their fields, the volume provides a comprehensive and accessible history of war from 1450–1850.

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
  • Volume 3, The Victims and Their Worlds: 1939–1945
  • Edited by Marion Kaplan, Natalia Aleksiun
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • Ordinary victims' voices from the Holocaust are still far less recognized than those of the perpetrators, Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust centers upon victims' perspectives, examining their experiences, responses, and fates. Chapters encompass the ordeals of a range of persecuted groups: Jews, Roma and Sinti, and homosexuals, as well as those with physical and mental challenges, Slavs, and Soviet Prisoners of War. Covering a wide geographical scope, contributors underscore the differences between victim experiences in eastern and western Europe while highlighting national and regional complexities. Through a breadth of primary sources including diaries, letters, memoirs and interviews, readers gain insight into the diverse reactions and behaviors of victims as well as those who helped or hurt them. This volume offers an overview of Holocaust scholarship through victims' voices, while highlighting areas for further research.

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
  • Volume 1, Contexts: Origins, Comparisons, Entanglements
  • Edited by Mark Roseman, Dan Stone
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • The Cambridge History of the Holocaust offers a comprehensive and innovative overview of the complex field of Holocaust history from a variety of interpretive perspectives. The first volume begins with essays outlining the evolution of Holocaust historiography and the central conceptual and methodological questions facing historians. Further chapters provide insights into the longer-term causes and contexts of the Holocaust, before focusing on its immediate pre-history. The volume examines Holocaust archives, race-thinking and eugenics, violence in Weimar Germany, Hitler and Nazi ideology, and the implementation of antisemitic policies in the run up to the Second World War. Its ambitious coverage provides an unparalleled overview of the development of the policies that created the conditions necessary for the Holocaust to take place.

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
  • Volume 4, Aftermath, Outcomes, Repercussions
  • Edited by Laura Jockusch, Devin O. Pendas
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • The aftermath of the Holocaust has been long and wide-reaching. Any act of mass murder and genocide leaves powerful traces: the trauma of the survivors, the challenge of punishment for the perpetrators and justice for the victims, the questions of how to properly commemorate and memorialize the loss and how to rebuild and restore. This is all the more true for the Holocaust, which has come to serve as a global cultural touchstone for evaluating mass violence. The legacy of the Holocaust has impacted every area of political and cultural life in many different countries since 1945. What is the state of “aftermath” studies for the Holocaust? How do we periodize the post-Holocaust landscape? Where are there continuities and where are there changes? How, when and where has the Holocaust been globalized? In what areas did the Holocaust generate a fundamental rethinking of human relations and state institutions? And where did it not? This volume offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust around the world and demonstrates its enduring significance, from the postwar period to the present day.

The Cambridge History of International Law
  • Volume 6, International Law in Early Modern Europe
  • General editor Randall Lesaffer
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    May 2025
    Print publication:
    28 February 2025
  • Volume VI of The Cambridge History of International Law offers a survey of the law of nations in early modern Europe through a balanced treatment of legal theory and diplomatic practice. Bringing together a wide range of scholars, this volume builds on recent historiographical insights from different disciplines, including legal history, diplomatic history, and the history of political thought. It considers all major themes ranging from the allocation of jurisdiction over land and sea, war- and peace- making, trade and navigation to diplomacy and dispute settlement. A unique overall synthesis of early modern law across nations in Europe.

The Cambridge History of International Law
  • Volume 10, International Law at the Time of the League of Nations (1920–1945)
  • General editor Randall Lesaffer
  • Edited by Robert Kolb, Momchil Milanov
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    March 2025
    Print publication:
    31 March 2025
  • Volume X of The Cambridge History of International Law offers a comprehensive and critical discussion of the history of international law in the interwar period to date. Bringing together scholars across various disciplines, the volume aims to go beyond the well-established cliché of the failure of the League of Nations and discusses the huge impact this period had on the post-WWII international legal order. It focuses on the League of Nations as an important milestone to be studied, analysed, and understood in its own right. Using a global perspective, the volume sheds light on the different branches of international law in this dynamic period, during which the discipline underwent a qualitative leap.

Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present
  • 2nd edition
  • James Vernon
  • Published online:
    14 January 2025
    Print publication:
    30 January 2025
  • This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. Vernon structures his compelling narrative around the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. In this new edition, Vernon expands on four important themes: the history of the environment and climate crisis; global pandemics; the history of minoritised people of colour; and shifting ideas of democracy and sovereignty. This textbook offers a new global history of Britain, demonstrating how the world shaped the course of Britain's modern history. Richly illustrated with figures and maps, the book features textboxes, further reading guides, highlighted key terms and a glossary. A supplementary online package includes a study guide with discussion questions and links to additional primary sources. This textbook is an essential resource for introductory courses on the history of modern Britain.

The Cambridge History of Strategy
  • Volume 1, From Antiquity to the American War of Independence
  • Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser
  • Published online:
    06 January 2025
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025
  • Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world. Drawing on material evidence covering two and a half millennia, an international team of leading scholars in each subject examines how strategy was formulated and applied and with what tools, from ancient Greece and China to the Ottoman and Mughal Empires and the American Revolutionary War. They explore key themes from decision-makers and strategy-making processes, causes of wars and war aims and tools of strategy in war and peace, to configurations of armed forces and distinctive and shared ways of war across civilisations and periods. A comparative conclusion examines how the linking of political goals with military means took place in different parts of the world over the course of history, asking whether strategic practice has universal features.

The Cambridge History of Strategy
  • Volume 2, From the Napoleonic Wars to the Present
  • Edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser
  • Published online:
    06 January 2025
    Print publication:
    09 January 2025
  • Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day. A team of eminent scholars examine how leaders of states, empires and non-state groups (such as guerrilla forces, rebel groups and terrorists) have attempted to practise strategy in the modern period. With a focus on the actual 'doing' of strategy, the volume aims to understand real-world experiences when ideas about conflict are carried out against a responding and proactive opponent. The case studies and material presented in the volume form an invitation to rethink dominant perspectives in the field of strategic studies. As the case studies demonstrate, strategy is most often not a stylised, premeditated and wilful phenomenon. Rather, it is a product of circumstance and opportunity, both structural and agential, leading to a view of strategy as an ad hoc, if not chaotic, enterprise.

Women in the Factory, 1880-1930
  • Class and Gender
  • Beatrice Moring
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 April 2024
  • A rich and detailed picture, across Britain and many other European countries, of the nature of women's factory work, the problems which arose and how women factory inspectors understood and reacted to the problems.

Renaissance Masculinities, Diplomacy, and Cultural Transfer
  • Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga in Italy and Beyond
  • Jessica O'Leary
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    08 May 2024
    Print publication:
    27 March 2024
  • Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga came of age during a time of intense change in sixteenth-century Italy: the Italian Wars (1494-1559). The first and third-born sons of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga spent their formative years at the courts of Francis I of France and Charles V of Spain, where, as effectively diplomatic hostages, they learned valuable lessons about the transnational social codes and rituals central to sixteenth-century political life. As adults, they applied these lessons in their political and martial collaborations with Charles V: supporting his dominions in Italy, facilitating his attempted colonisation of northern Africa, and praising his attacks on Muslim pirates in the Italian Mediterranean. This book uses epistolary, literary, and material sources to argue that the boyhood and adult experiences of Federico and Ferrante Gonzaga are illustrative of wider strategies adopted by elite Italians to respond to conflict and crisis in a global age.

Individualism and the Rise of Democracy in Poland
  • Tomek Grabowski
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    14 February 2021
  • A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture powered Poland's democratic-capitalist development.

The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes

The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes

Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
  • Transnational Encounters
  • Edited by Agnieszka Pasieka, Paweł Rodak
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    21 March 2023
  • A critical examination of the category of 'Polishness' - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

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